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John Quincy Adams is a preacher in Brooklyn. He founded the New Frontier Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he has been a pastor for 45 years. Mr. Adams, 87 -- father of two, grandfather of seven, great-grandfather of two, said he never...

March 21, 2006, Tuesday

To the Editor: In reading ''Father Knew Best,'' by Paul C. Nagel (Op-Ed, Dec. 3), one yearns for a time when people corresponded through the written word, words that help us in the present draw mental pictures of the past.